Ghost Of

Is belonging and fulfillment possible without family? No. Is it possible with family? No.

You cannot connect if you keep answering no.

You cannot keep your brother alive if you keep your mouth shut.

You cannot keep your brother alive.

At camp, some counselors take the kids on an excursion into the woods, leading them in a game of hide-and-seek. One boy, a deaf child who was also going blind, hid so well that they couldn't find him and he didn't find his way back. He had done everything right—

Nabokov says, "The lost glove is happy."

Is the lost brother happy?

(Ghost Of)

just because it was like life, / didn’t mean it could be life, / that you could come back to life / but not return to living. / And if you bypassed a war, a war / wouldn’t bypass you